58 NEW aUlNEA. 
come in prahus^ sometimes a hundred in nuraberj with the 
sole object of robbery and mm'der. |^ot long before our 
arrival, the village Warangara, on the abores of Tfiton'a 
Bay, was surprised by one of these expeditions, and 
almost entirely destroyed. The women who fell into 
their bands were carried away into captivity, and the men 
were murdered. The Papuans of this ncigbbourhood are 
not entn*ely guiltless tbemselves, as they sell the slaves 
brought here from the Bay of Argoeni, and which have 
probably been stolen or carried away by violence, to the 
Ceramese.^' 
The Ceraraese traders remain upon the coast four or 
five months on the occasion of each visit, as the produce 
ia brought in very slowly by the mountaineers, who are 
the chief collectors. The principal articles obtained from 
the interior are the odoriferous bark of the Massoi, 
Belishar3% and Rosamala, which are extensively used 
among the islands of the Archipelago, more especially 
Java and Bali, as cosmeticsj and, it is said, as medicine ; 
also dye-woods, nutmegs, the skins of birds of paradise, 
edible birds' nests, live cockatoosj lories, and crowned 
pigeons : many of the three last eventually reaching 
China, Ilindostan, and even Europe, by way of our 
settlement at Singapore. 
The extract from Lieutenant Kolff^s " Voyage of the 
* Dourga^ " given belowj conveys a general view of the 
natives of the west coast of New Guinea, which the 
winter has been able to confirm by the testimony of 
several well-informed and trustworthy native traders of 
, Goram and Ceram-Laut, except on the points regarding 
the comparative power of the coast and inland tribes^ and 
